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The Edo State Police Command on Tuesday said investigation is ongoing to unravel the mystery around the corpses of 10 men found along a bush path by Ibillo-Lampese Road. The Command said the discovery followed credible intelligence gotten by policemen, vigilantes and the hunters. EDO STATE POLICE COMMAND PRESS RELEASE SUSPECTED MURDER Recovery Of Ten […]

Anambra State Ministry of Women and Social Welfare, in collaboration with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, has rescued two siblings; aged five and three respectively from their father who was abusing them sexually.   The rescue operation was carried out after a whistle blower reported the incident to the ministry.   The […]

A Federal High Court sitting in Awka has sentenced a twenty-one-year-old man to seven months in prison for raping his younger sister who is aged fourteen.   Delivering judgment, the presiding judge, Dr Nnamdi Dimgba said the sentence will start from the day of arrest.   The convict, Mr Chinedu Eziuzo from Adazi-Enu in Anaocha […]

The President of the Senate Ahmad Lawan says Nigeria loses one million barrels of crude oil daily to crude theft. He made the remarks at the presentation of the 2023 Appropriation Bill to a joint session of the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja on Friday. Lawan said that the Nigerian economy was […]

The Benin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has secured the conviction and sentencing of two Internet fraudsters. The fraudsters: Harmony Enobakhare and Lucky Uhunamure Osamudiamen were jailed by Justices Efe Ikponmwonba of Edo State High Court Benin City and Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta […]

Eleven soldiers died and around 50 civilians were missing after a suspected jihadist attack in Burkina Faso’s north, the government said late Tuesday. Violence has raged in the landlocked west African country after Lieutenant-Colonel Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba seized power in a January coup, ousting Burkina’s elected leader and promising to rein in jihadists. As in […]

Abidemi Rufai, the suspended aide of Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has been sentenced to five years in prison for fraud. After Rufai was arrested at New York’s JFK Airport on his way to Nigeria in May 2021, he admitted using stolen identities to receive thousands of dollars in pandemic-related unemployment benefits a year after. […]

No fewer than three policemen were said to have been abducted in broad daylight by some unknown gunmen in Ogun State. It was gathered that the police officers were abducted on Thursday at Wasinmi, in Ewekoro Local Government Area of Ogun State. The cops were the State from Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos State, for an […]

A Lagos state high court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a dismissed police officer, Ogunyemi Olalekan, to life imprisonment for killing 35-year-old, Kolade Johnson. Olalekan, who was said to be attached to the Special Anti-Cultism Squad (SACS) of the Nigeria Police, shot Mr Johnson in the lower abdomen with an AK-47 rifle at about 5.10pm […]

The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) has sealed off over five properties belonging to the Auditor General of Yobe Local Government Audit’s Board, Mr. Yahaya Wakil Idris over suspected fraud allegation. Operatives of the commission stormed Damaturu on Wednesday evening and sealed off some of the properties on Thursday. Some of the properties sealed, […]